Commentary for Menachot 68:3

ת"ר יכול יכתבם על ד' עורות ויניחם בד' בתים בד' עורות ת"ל (שמות יג, ט) ולזכרון בין עיניך זכרון אחד אמרתי לך ולא ב' וג' זכרונות הא כיצד כותבן על ד' עורות ומניחן בד' בתים בעור אחד

One should write them upon four pieces of parchment and put them in four compartments made out of one piece of leather.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This was constructed with the aid of a mould or frame over which the hide, flexible and moist, was tautly stretched and allowed to harden, thus assuming the required form.');">⁶</span> If, however, one wrote them upon one parchment and put them in the four compartments,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The four portions were written upon one long strip of parchment with large blank spaces between one portion and the other, and the parchment was so placed in the compartments that each portion occupied a separate compartment, and the blank spaces of the parchment corresponded with the spaces between the compartments.');">⁷</span> that is sufficient. There must be a blank space between each [portion].

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